Origianlly produced as a motion picture in 1968.

Wide screen (1.66:1).

Adapted from a novella by Ousmane Sembène.

Special edition features: introduction by film scholar Aboubakar Sanigo; conversation from 2020 with author and screenwriter Boubacar Boris and sociologist and feminist activist Marie Angélique Savané; Praise song, a new program about director Ousmane Sembène, featuring outtakes from 2015 documentary Sembène! of interviews with author and activist Angela Davis, musician Youssou N'Dour, filmmkaer and scholar Manthia Diawara and many others; Tauw, a 1970 short film by Sembène; plus an essay by critic and scholar Tiana Reid and excerpts from a 1969 interview with Sembène.

Cinematographer, Paul Soulignac ; editors, Gilou Kikoïne, Max Saldinger.

Makuredia Gueye, Yunus Ndiay, Isseu Niang, Mustafa Ture, Farba Sar.

After jobless Ibrahima Dieng receives a money order for 25,000 francs from a nephew who works in Paris, news of his windfall quickly spreads among his neighbors, who flock to him for loans even as he finds his attempts to cash the order stymied in a maze of bureaucracy, and new troubles rain down on his head. An adaptation of a novella by the director himself is a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption, greed, and poverty.

DVD, monaural; wide screen (1.66:1).

Wolof and French dialogue; English subtitles.